[TowerTalk] Field Strength comparison

Lux, Jim jim at luxfamily.com
Sat Sep 4 21:28:47 EDT 2021


On 9/4/21 5:19 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> GE Stan,
>
> I have absolutely no hard engineering facts for you, other than to say that
> when I installed my 4-squares a few years ago, I located a small signal
> source about 200' away from all the arrays and made RX measurements with the
> arrays and my IC-7410.  I seemed to have very good results at this 200'
> distance from a vertical and a bunch of my 4-squares.
>
> I would've rather had 300' or 400', or even 700' but that would've meant
> locating my signal source on someone else's land and I didn't want to do
> that, for various reasons. (bringing attention to my hobby as one reason)
>
> I posted results here, if it's worth anything to you.
>
> Re: [TowerTalk] Wire 4-squares - they work ! (long) (GAIN?) (contesting.com)
> <http://lists.contesting.com/archives/html/Towertalk/2016-10/msg00213.html>
>
>   
>
> GL and thanks for all the contest Q's !
>
>   
>
> Mike VE9AA


These days, putting a source on a UAV would be super practical.. And 
getting 1000 ft away would be easy.




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